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The MBE Summit has brought academia, government, and industry experts together for over 10 years to share the challenges, implementation issues, and lessons learned in design, manufacturing, quality assurance, and sustainment of products and processes where a Model-Based approach is used. This includes all aspects of the product lifecycle from design, manufacturing, quality assurance, and sustainment of products, where a digital 3D model acts as the authoritative source of information.
The 2024 event was hosted at MxD headquarters located in Chicago, IL April 16 - 19. Technical content for the MBE Summit was organized by NIST's Rosemary Astheimer, and QIF Summit content was organized by the Digital Metrology Standards Consortium. The event theme was "Digital Threads that Simplify Data Flow between Networked Silos" supporting design, manufacture, and inspection from the perspective of users, implementers, and vendors. Topics included:
Addressing gaps that exist even in closely related domains
The role standards play in governing core requirements, best practices, and harmonization between common MBD formats (such as STEP and QIF) to enable valuable information to recirculate for optimal refinement and traceability required for long-term archival
MBE Standards and challenges to reaching consensus on content and data elements to compensate for use cases not yet addressed in a standard
Technical Data for Design, Manufacturing, and Quality
Ingestion of Technical Data and User Requirements
Digital Thread Initiatives
Implementation Roadblocks and Progress towards MBE
